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“pp 4 ay MEP ARD oT tae Memo for Director oe February 6, 1934+ B hae The Joe Polocie referred to is not known te Sheriff Bash or his deputy, Mr. Kelley, and attempts ere being made to definitely identify this individual before. making an arrest. The Kansas City office is also checking other informetion furnished “eres a A information from the game participant in the fight referred to ie. above, that the assassins, after committing the crime drove to. a wes 7 bottling works on NcGee near 234 Street where several of them: 2:-: hid for the entire day. Se Investigetion by the Kansas City office disclosed that- this bottling works is apperently the Glencale Beverage Company, . located at 2320 McGee Street, which company is owned by John L. ~ Lazia and operated by Charles Corolla, one of his chief lieutenants. To reach this bottling company, it is necessary to pass through <= - e subterranean street under Union Station, which emerges two. . blocks from the company at Grand Avenue and 22nd Street and __ Special Agent Anderson points out that it is entirely possible and a very simple ruse for the assassints car or those associated ~: with the assassins to have driven west from the scene of the —-” magssecre to the west side of the Union Station Plaze and then to circle through the subterranean street uncer the Union Station ; and emerge near the Glendale Bottling Works end would have escaped entirely rithout being noticed. | . ; : I consider the’ angle on which the Kensas city office” is presently engaged as extremely important inasmuch es from the ~~ beginning of this investigation there has been indication that -‘ .. . through Vernon Miller's contact with the gang controlled by John L. ~ Lazie, it is entirely possible thet he arranged to employ ” ‘ gunmen of that geng and it is recalled that the first letter received from Special Agent in Charge E. E. Conroy, when he assumed” en interview had with me that T. J. Higgins Tmetion of vital importance to the Kansas City case but did not disclose the nature of this ‘ information. In this connection, it should be borne in mind the’ close associatim between’ John L. Lazia and Eugene Reppert, Comm ssioner of Police at Kansas City, issourl. | ; Respectfully, 7 oo gas i